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“It’s never just business. It never will be. If it ever does become just business, that will mean that business is very bad.”
― Shoe Dog
― Shoe Dog
“Don’t tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.”
― Shoe Dog
― Shoe Dog
“Scaling a solution that saves or improves the lives of eight-year-olds instead of eighty-year-olds has a bigger cumulative impact over time and thus arguably calls for a larger slice of the budget.”
― The Voltage Effect: How to Make Good Ideas Great and Great Ideas Scale
― The Voltage Effect: How to Make Good Ideas Great and Great Ideas Scale
“Starting my own business was the only thing that made life’s other risks—marriage, Vegas, alligator wrestling—seem like sure things. But my hope was that when I failed, if I failed, I’d fail quickly, so I’d have enough time, enough years, to implement all the hard-won lessons. I wasn’t much for setting goals, but this goal kept flashing through my mind every day, until it became my internal chant: Fail fast.”
― Shoe Dog
― Shoe Dog
“When resources are limited, if you’re not getting the most out of every last dollar spent, the opportunity cost includes the additional impact your dollars could have had if allocated more effectively”
― The Voltage Effect: How to Make Good Ideas Great and Great Ideas Scale
― The Voltage Effect: How to Make Good Ideas Great and Great Ideas Scale
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